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'''HomeSeer''' is a commercial, PC Based, home automation<ref>[[Home Automation]]</ref> software package. Originally called "AutoHome" by KeWare Software, the name was changed to HomeSeer by [http://HomeSeer.com HomeSeer Technologies, LLC] around [[1998]]. HomeSeer was founded by Richard Helmke to solve his own needs for a better control program for his [[power line communication]] based [[X10]] devices.
<ref>Quote to author, circa 2001</ref>
HomeSeer was designed very early on to support having a built-in [[web server]] and was the first product of its kind to achieve this, allowing users to control the devices in their home, via the internet, from anywhere in the world. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/19981206232731/http://www.keware.com/ See the Internet Archive]</ref>
HomeSeer quickly grew to support other [[home automation]] technologies including [[infrared]], and [[HVAC]]. By [[1999]] support for running scripts, which were created/edited by the users, and supported several [[scripting languages]] such as [[VBScript]], [[JavaScript]], and [[Perl]].
In [[2003]], HomeSeer became the first product of its kind to support [[Z-Wave]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.homeseer.com/company/releases/07-02-HS2_22.htm |title=HomeSeer Releases v2.2 Update to HS2 Home Automation Software |accessdate=29 December 2008 |work= |publisher=HomeSeer Technologies |date=8 February 2007}} Press Release</ref>, a new wireless control technology developed by [http://www.zen-sys.com/ Zensys] and then later backed and supported by [http://www.z-wavealliance.com/ the Z-Wave Alliance].
== Features ==
* [[Remote Control]]
** Voice Recognition
** Built-In [[Web Server]]
** [[E-mail]]
** [[Touchscreen]] devices
* Devices, created to represent control elements (real and virtual)
* Events, which provide macro, scheduled, or triggerable actions to be performed.
** Event triggers can be based upon external stimuli, date/time, or manually triggered using remote control or another event.
** Event conditions can be placed on the triggers of events to further control event execution.
** Event actions are a list of commands to be carried out when the event is run or triggered.
* Scripts, which are triggerable from events, can be used to provide further control if necessary over what can be done with the point-and-click HTML based interface provided by the built-in web server.
* Open Plug-In architecture allows HomeSeer Technologies, 3<sup>rd</sup> parties, or users to extend the capabilities of the product by interfacing it with other technologies or software packages.
== See also ==
* [[Home Automation]]
* [[Remote Control]]
* Home Automation Technologies
** [[Power line communication]]
** [[Universal powerline bus]] is a competing industry technology to X10.
** [[Z-Wave]]
==External links==
* Groups:
** {{Usenet|comp.home.automation|
Home automation}}
* [http://HomeSeer.com HomeSeer.com] The HomeSeer Technologies, LLC website.
* [http://kbase.x10.com X10 Knowledge Base] A huge repository of trouble-shooting information for X10 projects. (Commercial site)
== References ==
<References/>
'''HomeSeer''' is a commercial, PC Based, home automation<ref>[[Home Automation]]</ref> software package. Originally called "AutoHome" by KeWare Software, the name was changed to HomeSeer by [http://HomeSeer.com HomeSeer Technologies, LLC] around [[1998]]. HomeSeer was founded by Richard Helmke to solve his own needs for a better control program for his [[power line communication]] based [[X10]] devices.
<ref>Quote to author, circa 2001</ref>
HomeSeer was designed very early on to support having a built-in [[web server]] and was the first product of its kind to achieve this, allowing users to control the devices in their home, via the internet, from anywhere in the world. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/19981206232731/http://www.keware.com/ See the Internet Archive]</ref>
HomeSeer quickly grew to support other [[home automation]] technologies including [[infrared]], and [[HVAC]]. By [[1999]] support for running scripts, which were created/edited by the users, and supported several [[scripting languages]] such as [[VBScript]], [[JavaScript]], and [[Perl]].
In [[2003]], HomeSeer became the first product of its kind to support [[Z-Wave]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.homeseer.com/company/releases/07-02-HS2_22.htm |title=HomeSeer Releases v2.2 Update to HS2 Home Automation Software |accessdate=29 December 2008 |work= |publisher=HomeSeer Technologies |date=8 February 2007}} Press Release</ref>, a new wireless control technology developed by [http://www.zen-sys.com/ Zensys] and then later backed and supported by [http://www.z-wavealliance.com/ the Z-Wave Alliance].
== Features ==
* [[Remote Control]]
** Voice Recognition
** Built-In [[Web Server]]
** [[E-mail]]
** [[Touchscreen]] devices
* Devices, created to represent control elements (real and virtual)
* Events, which provide macro, scheduled, or triggerable actions to be performed.
** Event triggers can be based upon external stimuli, date/time, or manually triggered using remote control or another event.
** Event conditions can be placed on the triggers of events to further control event execution.
** Event actions are a list of commands to be carried out when the event is run or triggered.
* Scripts, which are triggerable from events, can be used to provide further control if necessary over what can be done with the point-and-click HTML based interface provided by the built-in web server.
* Open Plug-In architecture allows HomeSeer Technologies, 3<sup>rd</sup> parties, or users to extend the capabilities of the product by interfacing it with other technologies or software packages.
== See also ==
* [[Home Automation]]
* [[Remote Control]]
* Home Automation Technologies
** [[Power line communication]]
** [[Universal powerline bus]] is a competing industry technology to X10.
** [[Z-Wave]]
==External links==
* Groups:
** {{Usenet|comp.home.automation|
Home automation}}
* [http://HomeSeer.com HomeSeer.com] The HomeSeer Technologies, LLC website.
* [http://kbase.x10.com X10 Knowledge Base] A huge repository of trouble-shooting information for X10 projects. (Commercial site)
== References ==
<References/>
